The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 21 дек. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 528 At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing—and radical—explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin’ s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin’ s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species. |
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... favor pretty faces, fertile bodies, and high social status. But evolutionary psychology in general still views sexual preferences more often as outcomes of evolution than as causes of evolution. Even where the sexual preferences of our ...
... favor pretty faces, fertile bodies, and high social status. But evolutionary psychology in general still views sexual preferences more often as outcomes of evolution than as causes of evolution. Even where the sexual preferences of our ...
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... favor what its agents cannot perceive. If animals cannot see the shapes of one another's heart ventricles, then heart ventricles cannot be directly shaped by sexual selection—vivisection is not a practical method for choosing a sexual ...
... favor what its agents cannot perceive. If animals cannot see the shapes of one another's heart ventricles, then heart ventricles cannot be directly shaped by sexual selection—vivisection is not a practical method for choosing a sexual ...
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... favors some traits over others, and immediately produces offspring that are likely to inherit the desired traits. In other forms of social selection, the link between behavior and reproduction is much less direct. For example, the ...
... favors some traits over others, and immediately produces offspring that are likely to inherit the desired traits. In other forms of social selection, the link between behavior and reproduction is much less direct. For example, the ...
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... favor the expansion of a costly organ like the brain, without any major survival benefits becoming apparent until long after the organ stopped expanding? The third problem is that nobody has been able to suggest any plausible survival ...
... favor the expansion of a costly organ like the brain, without any major survival benefits becoming apparent until long after the organ stopped expanding? The third problem is that nobody has been able to suggest any plausible survival ...
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... favor traits opposed to survival. Since most ornaments decrease an individual's survival ability, they presumably could not have evolved by natural selection for survival. This means that evolution must include some form of creative ...
... favor traits opposed to survival. Since most ornaments decrease an individual's survival ability, they presumably could not have evolved by natural selection for survival. This means that evolution must include some form of creative ...
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The Runaway Brain | 68 |
A Mind Fit for Mating | 99 |
Ornamental Genius | 138 |
Courtship in the Pleistocene | 177 |
Bodies of Evidence | 224 |
Arts of Seduction | 258 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade 34 | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
Epilogue | 426 |
Acknowledgments | 434 |
Glossary | 436 |
Notes | 447 |
Bibliography | 467 |
Index | 491 |
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